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I almost didn’t put up this post. Right now, looking at all this chocolate, I honestly don’t know how I even contemplated that. I baked this for my husband’s birthday to go with whiskey themed presents 🙂 The cake is moist, rich and bursting with whiskey and chocolate along with some very pleasing hints of coffee and spices. An…

Perfection is a hard thing to chase in 35 degree temperatures with 90% humidity. And a hot oven at 175 degrees. Very, very hard. But when you need a cookie, you need a cookie. When I made these barley cookies the first time, they tasted great, but were too thin, which made photography difficult. It was…

School reunions are the best. Even the unofficial kind. The kind that makes you feel very old and very grown-up, till someone cracks a terrible joke no adult should laugh at. The kind where you go to McDonald’s just because that’s where you spent all your free time and the fries make you nostalgic 🙂…

My oldest friend in the whole wide world got engaged a few months ago. Yay! Her fiance, whom I like even more ever since he said he loves my blog, took one look at these cookies and told her “When you go to Mumbai next, I HAVE TO HAVE THEM”. I may have added the capital…

It’s The Desserted Girl’s first blogversary! I turn one today 🙂 In case you missed my nostalgia post, thank you so, so, so much for getting me to this day. It’s been awesome 🙂 My first ever post on this blog were these super easy cookies. It was more of a trial post and all…

This long weekend was just as it should have been. I baked like a crazy person, watched a movie, ate a lot of good food and listened to a Beatles CD after a very long time. Oh and I had this for breakfast on Saturday. I love that you can bake a cake in a loaf…

I just want to begin by saying, ohmygodthiscakeohmygod. Pass me a fork, please. I’ve made cheesecake before. Here, here and here. But this one is living proof that my love for peanut butter is getting dangerously strong. Especially when there’s chocolate thrown in there. Oh and Oreos. Always. Have. Oreos. I had 6 Oreos…